Shouldn’t supporting a football team be fun?

Shouldn’t supporting a football team be fun?

Now smile and have fun.... OR ELSE!!!

How about we start rounding people up in the streets, load them into trucks, get them to the stadium and force them to smile and sing at the point of a gun?

That could improve the crowd number and the atmosphere. Would also get us better media coverage too.

Surprised he could put his bacon butty down long enough to type all that out.

Works for the North Koreans...when it comes to crowd participation, they're in a league of their own!

Supporting your team's supposed to be fun? That's just crazy talk. He's obviously never been to watch Partick Thistle play Forfar on a Tuesday night in the middle of a Scottish winter.

So it works.

Since I'm just the ideas man, someone else will have to work out how to put this into practice...

I almost cried... or wretched... it's such a fine line.

Fine words Frankie, fine words, now the rest of you f**kers just need to join in when Wilso and I start our random chants.

I went to my first game at the RoF this season, the pre season cup final (I live in everyones fabourite city - Christchurch).

FFS whats happened on the forums this season is no different to what was on them towards the end of last season.
So lets see we are to smile no matter how we play or what the result is.
There is to be no comment about the style of play,squad used or how players performed.
Only positive opinions are to be posted and you are all to go out and buy some rose colored glasses.

Does this 'let's have fun' theme mean that the Fever Zone will start a practice that I have only ever seen once (supporting the Negara Brunei Darussalam team against the MAlaysian Armed forces):

Clapping when the opposition scored   
HarryHotspur2008-09-17 14:00:18

Know for a sensible response.Dont know about others FM but i still enjoy each game at the stadium,I still have to pinch myself as i stand outside watching people pour in with all sorts of Phoenix merchandise on that this is happening in my town.

Doubt that anyone will admit it but part of the problem i reckon is that some of us in YF made a strategic error this season and up and moved.Not far but i think its enough to make a considerable difference to the noise coming out of the zone.In hindsight we should have made them come to us not the other way around.Sorry FM but the thing with starting the chants is that after being left hanging out to dry your willingness to start them drops a little.Its also interesting to see some people commenting about chanting on here yet you RARELY see some them make an attempt to start them.


Think you are being a bit naive about crowd size,I have my doubts that people would turn up to  games just to experience the crowd performance.As much as you may not like it Jimmy Officestud and Sonia Typingpool are not going to turn up to watch a team thats not putting at least some results on the board.

With the Ranfurly Sheild likely to be in town for at least a week after saturday,its even more important that we start to get some results on the board as people come to watch football not how a crowd performs.

Not when you're playing sh*t, no. Moods go up and down with results.

I liked it, and I think he has a point about atmosphere. Take the sevens as an example, thousands of people walking around the concourse not even watching the games (not that I want silly costmes at Phoenix games) I don't think Jimmy Officestud and Sonia Typingpool care what the score is as long as they had a good time. If they cared about football they would have been to a game already.

I'm really hoping Auckland get their act together in time for their Ranfurly Shield defence or we're in real trouble.Arsenal2008-09-17 14:43:58

I've can honestly say that I've never once not enjoyed a home game, regardless of the result.

It's all about being part of the fun, supporting your team through thick and thin and thanking the sweet baby jesus that we're lucky enough to have a team in the first place.

Yeah, but the 7s isn't about watching all the games (other than the semi/final on last night, esp. if NZ's playing), it's basically an excuse for a big piss-up rather than a genuine sporting event.

Football's clearly different in this respect, and couple it with the perception that the game overall has amongt average NZers (most of whom know next to nothing about football), then results are very important. For Christ's sakes, results make a massive difference to pretty much every other sporting team in NZ, of course they have an impact on our crowds too.

Yeah but only to people who care. I could care less about rugby but have been to two games, I didn't go for the result I went to be with my friends and have a fun night out. Ofcourse results matter in sport, but getting people who wouldn't normally watch a particular sport to watch it is all about making it fun. You need a different perspective, you go because you care, but how do you get your mates who don't care to turn up. You tell them there going to have a good time, loose there voices chanting and hopefully see a win.

 Pure class...

do i get a day off work with that as well!!

I was the only bloody one joining in half the time! Everyone else seemed to lose their voice on 60 or 70 mins
WillyB2008-09-17 17:35:25

someone was getting bored...

Shouldn�t supporting a football team be fun?

Not if you supoort Tottenham

Lots of fun supporting Spurs but it's all pre-season.

32 years man and boy a Hibs fan. I've come to the conclusion that being a football fan is in the most vastly long periods of pure miserable crap interspersed with once in a dozen years moments of sheer unadulterated bliss.

I totally agree with Frankie...Enjoy the game !!!

haha fair point.

Hey everyone, we have our very own professional football team. Despite results, it should be fun. We would be miserable if the Nix ceased to exist wouldn't we. Last Sunday in Aisle 14 they hought I was a bit weird (There is truth in that) because i was standing and joining in wit the YF chants when they started. Although they did laugh with some of the songs and remarks.

I went to my first Phoenix game in the weekend, and I took the mrs, it was her first ever football match. Besides having a laugh at a few of my Cap 1 games. She thought it was awesome, she was amazed by the fever zone, the fact they were singing and cheeky. There were a couple of young teenage girls behind us talking football like mad, and she was just struck by how much they gave a damn, and how much they wanted to do things to Glenn Moss.

Maybe everything isn't quite as dire as what we think guys.

we're the commited, we feel the euphoria like being engulfed in angel fire, and suffer the hardships like being crushed under the weight of the Earth. The current state of the Nix is one of those hardships.

Yeah sorry me and Vickmeist noticed you were giving it your all, I was sober at the game and not as loud as I normally am, it won't happen again.

Well I was a diehard Kingz and Knights fan, and I have so many fun memories of supporting them. The bad memories soon fade, but the good ones last, I wouldn't have swapped them for anything! Oi Oi Edgecumbe2008-09-18 21:35:57

I agree - I always thought sport was about misery, because it makes the triumphs so much sweeter.

I think what Frankie is trying to say is that we should be enjoying the misery, and not worrying about things beyond the Feverzone's immediate control (bangers, whistles, whether other people come or not)

When the Phoenix do come right, and you're there for it, you'll be loving it, right up until they go crap again the next week. That's how football works.wolfman2008-09-18 22:34:55

HARDEN THE FCK UP